I hear that... I used to drive a plow truck for a landscape company... those things took a beating. Our two maintenance guys were working 40 hours+ just to keep them running, and usually were falling behind.

Heck, once we had a guy who did an hour hour stint(75 miles driving) in a 5 yard loader with a 11' plow, because all the other trucks were broke..

My big thing is keeping them deiced . after a few hours of running in deep snow it builds up on controls and shit starts sticking . Air brakes like to freeze up when there parked hot and snow blows in on the lineings .

Last week we have been on heavy service mode preparing for the snow . I even put the plow on the big D today .:gman: